He claimed without evidence that the nation’s election system was “under coordinated assault and siege” and that it was “statistically impossible” for him to have lost to President-elect Joe Biden.
Eleven GOP senators pledged to reject Biden’s electoral votes from swing states, defying a plea from Senate leaders to avoid a fight over the election’s legitimacy when Congress meets in a joint session next week.
The pandemonium would seem to be a natural culmination of what Trump and compliant Republicans have wrought on the nation they swore an oath to protect.
Trump’s assault on American democracy over the past two months, culminating with Wednesday’s attack at the Capitol, has left him as isolated as he ever has been in his four years as president.
In the wake of the mob attack on the Capitol that he incited, Trump is now destined to slink out of the White House diminished and increasingly isolated.
The same pathologies that abetted President Trump’s political rise, animated his followers and became hallmarks of his turbulent single term have now, in the twilight of his presidency, left him politically damaged.
In an exclusive interview for the new book “I Alone Can Fix It,” the former president described the atmosphere on Jan. 6 before the storming of the Capitol as largely friendly and peaceful.
